Man at the Crossroads. Long title: Man at crossroads looking with hope and high vision to the choosing of a new and better future, 1934. Painted by Diego Rivera. Fresco. This painting had been contracted to be made in the RCA building (Rockfeller Center) in New York City in 1932. Before being able to complete the fresco, Rockfeller, seeing the revolutionary connotations within, demanded Rivera take Lenin out of the painting. Rivera refused to censor his work, and the entire Fresco was destroyed. Rivera would later reproduce a smaller version of this Fresco in Mexico City. See also: E.B. White's poem about this painting: I Paint What I See

Negros. Painted by José Clemente Orozco. lithograph.

Mussolini. 1933. Painted by Diego Rivera at the New Workers School in New York. Fresco 1.83 x 1.52 m.

Please note: the murals of Orozco and Siqueiros are unfortunately poorly represented here. Both made a variety of extremely powerful, beautiful murals full of strong colors. These works, very revolutionary in character, are censored in bourgeois libraries and many publications of Mexican Muralists, making this outstanding work very difficult to access. Presented here are only the more subtle paintings from both these bold muralists. If anyone has books or information on where we could locate images of the soul of their paintings, please contact Brian Baggins.